These systems actually have more capabilities than outlined here.
To: Navy Patriot
I was surprised how easily the Argentines sunk a British ship using the Exocet. they also sunk some using dumb bombs.
2 posted on
10/09/2014 8:35:33 PM PDT by
yarddog
(G)
To: Navy Patriot
Some folks question why the U.S. Navy would need such exotic weapons... Really, Andrew? Who would those folks be, pray tell?
Oh, yeah; America's enemies.
Got it.
3 posted on
10/09/2014 8:42:16 PM PDT by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: Navy Patriot
But we have GENIUSES on this site that tell us Russia is a PAPER TIGER and the Polish Calvary will save Ukraine now that they’re part of NATO (and therefore we start start WW3 against Russia).
I wonder who’s right.
7 posted on
10/10/2014 2:42:15 AM PDT by
BobL
(Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
To: Navy Patriot
Someone needs to tell the author that SeaRAM and Phalanx aren’t exactly exotic, and that the prototype rail guns have never been intended to counter incoming missiles. Stupid. Really stupid.
8 posted on
10/10/2014 3:47:08 AM PDT by
Pecos
(That government governs best which governs least.)
To: Navy Patriot
The only middle they should be concerned about is the Obamamissle
To: Navy Patriot
And these are rather old Soviet systems that have been around for decades.
AND originally they were armed with thermonuclear warheads.
I love reading about these things though. It is a reminder that if we ever went up against the Russians it would not go as easily for us as our most recent conflicts. If that was easy.
12 posted on
10/10/2014 5:30:34 AM PDT by
Wildbill22
(They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
To: Navy Patriot
Better to overestimate your enemies capabilities than to underestimate them.
13 posted on
10/10/2014 5:32:40 AM PDT by
McGruff
(we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama)
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